On today's Artcentric Edition of Midday Matters, it's the wide & wonderful array of 'Cherry Blossom Festival' customs we explore, w/ Dorothy Kittaka, Terry O'Brien, Hikaru Tamaki & Yoko Reikano Kimura.

WBOI-FM, an NPR station in Fort Wayne, Ind., seeks a creative, enterprising reporter and anchor to join our award-winning team. Now under the leadership of GM Peter Dominowski, co-founder of the Public Radio Program Directors Association and the MEGS for Journalists workshops, Northeast Indiana Public Radio is looking for a journalist who is eager to tell the stories of real people. We want a reporter who's creative, engaging on social media and the web, and driven to tell stories that impact the community.

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"Gardening Guru" Doug Hackbarth answers your questions!

On Health 360 today Dr. Mel Karas joins us to discuss Hyper and Hypo-thyroidism, autoimmune thyroiditis, the problem of world wide iodine deficiency, and thyroid cancer. Dr. Karas is an endocrinologist with the Lutheran Medical Group.

Three Indiana groups whose specialty license plates were suspended last year have been told negotiations to recover them are off.

A lot of new graduates are heading into the sometimes confusing world of credit and debt. On today's program, our friends from Financial Hope in Fort Wayne are taking us back to basics with a discussion of all things credit.

We're talking all things education on today's Midday Matters!